Woman, 24, who killed her sister, 14, while drink driving and livestreaming is murdered in drive-by shooting seven years on
A California woman who killed her sister by driving drunk while livestreaming has been murdered in a drive-by shooting.
Obdulia Sanchez, 26, was struck Tuesday night after a gunman opened fire at a residence in Stockton, roughly 80 miles outside of San Francisco.
She and another victim, whose identity has not been publicly released, were both shot in the attack and taken to a nearby hospital, police said in a press release.
Sanchez died from her injuries. Her identity was confirmed to KXTV by the San Joaquin County Medical Examiner's Office.
The other victim is understood to have survived, but no further details about their condition have been released at this time.
Sanchez has a history of run-ins with the law and was previously convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter, DUI and child endangerment over a 2017 crash that killed her 14-year-old sister Jacqueline.
She was sentenced to more than six years in prison, but was released on parole after only 26 months after receiving credit for good behavior. Sanchez was arrested again just four weeks later after crashing a car during a police pursuit.
Investigators have not identified a suspect or motive in the drive-by shooting that ended Sanchez's life. There is nothing at this time to suggest the killing was connected to Jacqueline's death.
Obdulia Sanchez, 26, (pictured in 2023) was killed Tuesday night in a drive-by shooting at a residence in Stockton, California
Sanchez was previously convicted of gross vehicular manslaughter, DUI and child endangerment over a 2017 crash that killed her 14-year-old sister Jacqueline. Prosecutors said she had been livestreaming on Instagram while driving (pictured) and lost control of the vehicle
Sanchez was 18 at the time of the crash that killed her teenage sister.
Prosecutors said Sanchez was livestreaming on Instagram while driving, and the video shows her taking her hands off the steering wheel.
Sanchez veered onto the shoulder of a road in Los Banos, about 100 miles south of San Francisco, and lost control of the car.
Police said she overcorrected and sent the car crashing through a fence, causing it to swerve and overturn. Jacqueline was ejected out the back window and died.
That is when Sanchez made the decision to get her phone and begin livestreaming once again, capturing her bloodied sister as she died.
She was seen in a field near the crashed vehicle, looking into the camera and saying: 'Everybody, if I go to... jail for life you already know why.'
Her sister was seen lifeless on the ground with clear signs of head trauma.
Jacqueline's then-girlfriend, who was also ejected from the vehicle, was seen in the video as well while waving her arms and trying to summon help in the distance.
Jacqueline (right) is pictured with her then-girlfriend Manuela Seja (left) who suffered a leg injury during the deadly 2017 crash
The car rolled over a barbed wire fence and onto a field in Los Banos, about 120 miles southeast of San Francisco, on Friday
'My sister is… dying. Look... I... love my sister to death,' Sanchez continued, adding: 'Jacqueline, please wake up.'
She then started kissing her sister's face.
'I f***ing love my sister to death. I don't give a f***. We about to die. This is the last thing I wanted to happen to us but it just did,' said Sanchez, who also had blood covering her face.
'Jacqueline, please wake up. This is the last thing I wanted to happen... I killed my sister, but I don't care. I killed my sister. I know I'm going to prison, but I don't care. I'm sorry, baby. Imma hold it down. Rest in peace, sweetie.'
Sanchez then said to her dead sister: 'If you don't survive, I'm so f***ing sorry.'
She had been livestreaming before the crash as well, with video showing her and her little sister in their 2003 Buick along with Jacqueline's then-girlfriend.
The three were heading to Stockton at the time to attend Jacqueline's Catholic Confirmation Ceremony the following day.
Sanchez had a blood alcohol level of 0.1 per cent at the time of the deadly crash, according to hospital records.
Obdulia Sanchez appears in a Los Banos, California branch of the Merced County Superior Court with her public defender in July 2017
In August 2017, Sanchez opened up about the fatal accident in an eight-page letter sent from behind bars to local CBS affiliate KPGE.
She claimed she filmed the lifeless and blood-covered body of her sister Jacqueline as the young girl took her final breaths because she knew her family would need the money for the girl's funeral.
In a shocking statement at the end of the letter, she wrote: 'P.S: I made that video because I knew I had more than 5K followers. 'It was the only way my sister would get a decent burial,' wrote Sanchez.
'I would never expose my sister like that. I anticipated the public donating money because my family isn't rich.'
She then added: 'Sorry for making that video. I look awful but I accomplished my goal.'
As she was sentenced in February 2018, she told the court: 'I'm so sorry, if I could take her place, I would. My negligence killed my sister. I was stupid, immature, and irresponsible.'
